Book Titles

There is a limit to how many [task] boards you can manage before the upkeep becomes too arduous.

Put your solo meetings on your calendar and protect them like any other meeting of appointment.

Individual task boards can significantly improve the quality of your life as a knowledge worker, but only if invest sufficient time in their upkeep.

A regular rhythm of efficient meetings can replace 90 percent of hive mind messaging, if you have a way to keep track of what needs to be discussed in these meetings.

…energy and attention saved from administrative wrangling can be invested into activities that can actually improve the quality…

…eliminating unnecessary coordination does not just reduce frustration, but also increases resources to invest in the activities that really matter.

Make automatic what you can reasonably make automatic, and only then worry about what to do with what remains.

…processes will reduce your dependence on the hyperactive hive mind workflow and reward you with extra cognitive energy and mental peace.

…by adding complexity to the rules we use to structure our communication, the actual amount of information required by the interactions can be reduced.

…clever protocols that take into account the structure of the information being communicated can perform much better than naïve approaches. – Claude Shannon